Does Trump even need a Joint Chiefs chairman?

Published February 28, 2025 5:50am ET



There’s a trope in the world of print journalism that if a headline ends in a question mark, the answer is almost always, “no.”

So, if you’re flipping through this edition of the magazine in a rush, I’ll give the BLUF, which in today’s vernacular means “bottom line up front.”

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